Game apparatus



(No Model.)

W. W. GADLB. GAME APPARATUS.

No. 582,264. Patented May 11, 1897.

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IVILBERT WV. CADLE, OF LUMBERCITY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE` IIALF TO IVILLIAM II. IVEEKS,.OF IIAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAM E APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,264, dated May 11, 1897.

Application filed August 24, 1895.

Be it known that I, IVILBERT W. CADLE, of Lumber City, county of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- 1n gs.

The object of my invention is to produce an apparatus for playing games in which one part, which constitutes'a frame and which may be called the holder,7 is contrived to accommodate and hold a series of tickets or cards which constitute the other part of my apparatus.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a top plan view of my apparatus complete. Fig. II is a similar view of-the holder with the tickets removed. Fig. III is a longitudinal vertical section of the holder. Fig. IV is a view of a series of tickets arranged as shown Fig. V is a perspective view of a modified form of holder. f

Referring to the figures on the drawings, l indicates the holder of my apparatus, which maybe made of cardboard, pasteboard, papier-mch, celluloid, metal, wood, or of any suitable material. The characteristic features are an outside or bounding rib or frame 2 and transverse ribs 3. The outside frame and the transverse ribs divide the holder into a series of spaces 4, which are preferably oblong rectangular in shape. These ribs may be formed in the body of the holder by anysuitable means, depending chiefly upon the character of the material of which the holder is constructed. In cardboard, for example, it may be embossed, in metal it may be stamped, in wood cut, and in papier-mch and celluloid it may be molded.

I enumerate the materials of which the holder may be made and the methods of forming them properly in order to make it apparent that I do not confine myself to such details as relate to the material used or the method of preparing it.k

5 indicates tickets or cards which are made to fit the spaces 4, which should be deep enough to accommodate them and hold them in place without permitting them to slip and disarrange the filled holder. The tickets may Serial No. 560,417. (No model.)

vbe made of any suitable thin material*as, for

example, bristol-board, or any other material might be employed. The tickets are designed to be arranged by numbers or consecutive letters in the spacesA provided in the holder. Ticket No. l would be applicable to space No. l, ticket No 2 to space No. 2,'and so on. In place of numbers or letters any other suitable means of identifying particular tickets to a particular holder may be employed-as, for example, the colors of the tickets and spaces or the respective shapes thereof.

Inl arranging the tickets in the holder space No. l is designed to be filled with a ticket upon which is printed an adjective applicable to a person and space No. 0 is to be filled with the name of a person. Likewise spaces 3 and 4 are similarly filled. For this reason I prefer to employ tickets in the spaces 2 and 4 having silicate surfaces or other, surfaces which may be written upon, so that the writing may be afterward erased. The spaces 2 and 4 are merely mentioned suggestively as those in which the naine-tickets are to be employed. Obviously any other space or spaces with ticket or tickets to correspond might be selected instead of spaces 2 and 4 and their respective tickets.

Instead of forming the holder merely with depressions or spaces formed between ribs in its face the holder may be made as shown in Fig. lV of the drawings. In that figure one of the side ribs of the frame may be omitted, so that the spaces 4 are shown open-ended at G, as illustrated. The transverse ribs which define spaces are formed with grooves 7 in their adjacent sides, so that the tickets may be slipped endwise into the spaces and there held firmly.

Other means might be devised for holding the tickets in place, but I mention only those which, while they are ample for thev purpose, render it possible to manufacture the holder at comparatively small cost.

It may be added in explanation of the game which may be played upon my apparatus that in playing it the spaces`2 and 4, for example, are filled, respectively, with names of persons roo either playing or not. The other spaces would then be filled with a ticket having an adjective, space 3 also with a ticket bearing an adjective, the adjectives on the ticket-s in the spaces l and 3, respectively, being descriptive of the persons whose names appear in the spaces 3 and 4', respectively. The transverse rib between the spaces 2 and 3 may bear the wort met The ticket No. 5 would refer to some place or manner of meeting. The transverse rib between spaces 5 and 6 bears the inscription He said to her; that between spaces 6 and 7 She said to l1i1n5 that between spaces 7 and 8 Her folks said5 that between spaces 8 and 9 The consequences wereg that between 9 and 10 The world thought.

It may be perceived that by numerous fanciful changes in the inscriptions upon the tickets an amusing game may be played. It is not material that the transverse ribs should bear the inscriptions which serve as a connecting-link between the inscriptions upon the tickets, but the tickets themselves may be printed in full, so that when the spaces are filled with the proper tickets the inscriptions above referred to as displayed upon the transverse ribs will then be displayed upon the tickets.

W hat I claim is- 1. In game apparatus, the combination with a holder provided with transverse ribs defining ditterentlydentiiied ticket-spaces, of tickets identified, respectively, with each of the spaces, certain transverse ribs of the holder and the tickets being' provided with words or phrases arranged in syntactical relation, substantially as specified.

2. In gaine apparatus, the combination with a holder provided with transverse ribs dening differently-identified ticket-spaces, of tickets identified, respectively with each of the spaces, certain of the transverse ribs and the tickets being provided with words or phrases in syntactical relation, the Words or phrases upon certain of said tickets being erasable, substantially as specified.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

WILBERT W. CADLE.

lVitnesses:

JOSEPH L. ATKINs, FRANK D. BLAcKis'roNE. 

